He must have secretly cherished, then, as it seems, some private grudge against the Megarians but by way of public and open charge he accused them of appropriating to their own profane uses the sacred territory of Eleusis, and proposed a decree that a herald be sent to them, the same to go also to the Lacedaemonians with a denunciation of the Megarians. ‘Well then, don't take it down, but turn the tablet to the wall surely there's no law preventing that.’ Clever as the proposal was, however, not one whit the more did Pericles give in. They say that when an embassy had come from Lacedaemon to Athens to treat of these matters, and Pericles was shielding himself behind the plea that a certain law prevented his taking down the tablet on which the decree was inscribed, Polyalces, one of the ambassadors, cried:
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